While I was taking the CELTA, I couldn't wait for it to be over. But now that it's finished, I am bored. It is good to be done, though, and to have a certification that will allow me to work anywhere in the world.

What's the verdict? I thought it was well worth it, and I'm glad I did it. It gave me a place to start, so I will know what to do when I have real students. Most importantly, it gave me a chance to practice teaching real students, and get feedback. This was the heart of the course, and the detailed feedback was worth the price of admission.

But, the CELTA does not make you a teacher, it just gives you a place to start. Also, if you've already been teaching for a long time, you will probably get less out of the course.

The workload was reasonable. There were even days when I had nothing to do. I'd usually spent two hours a night planning lessons, and worked on the written assignments over the weekend.

The efforts to help the guy-who-doesn't get it helped him a little. We told him exactly what to do, and he sort of did it right. But he still doesn't have a clue. He had failed one of his written assignments, and had to resubmit the other three. In addition, three of his nine lessons were "Not to Standard." Not surprisingly, he failed the class. Good, because if someone like him had a CELTA, it would cheapen it for the rest of us.